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Dalton Trans. 2014 Jul 28;43(28):10710-2. doi: 10.1039/c4dt01112k.

Facile base-free in situ generation and palladation of mesoionic and normal N-heterocyclic carbenes at ambient conditions.

Dalton transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003)

Bemineni Sureshbabu, Venkatachalam Ramkumar, Sethuraman Sankararaman

Affiliations

  1. Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036, India. [email protected].

PMID: 24931048 DOI: 10.1039/c4dt01112k

Abstract

Synthesis of normal and mesoionic N-heterocyclic carbene Pd(II) complexes in near quantitative yields from the corresponding NHC precursor salts under base free and ambient conditions is reported. A plausible mechanism involving charge-assisted hydrogen bonded intermediates is proposed.

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